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Sixty-fourth Chapter
"Forgive us, forgive us, O foolish one, for the many mistakes we have made. May your grace be upon us." ||64||
Thus, being entreated by the beloved ones, the non-retreating one, with a heart full of sin, decided to burn Dwarika along with its inhabitants. ||65||
He showed them both, Balarama and Krishna, two fingers, clearly indicating that only they two could be saved, not anyone else. ||66||
Knowing that his anger would not subside, Balarama and Krishna, realizing the destruction of Dwarika, were filled with sorrow and confusion. They returned to the city. ||67||
At that time, many Yadavas, including Shambhu Kumar, who had renounced the world, left the city and resided in caves and mountains. ||68||
The sage Vyasa, whose storehouse of tapas was burnt by the fire of anger, died and became a god named Agni Kumar, a resident of the realm of false vision. ||69||
Within a moment, he became fully aware of the wrong done to him by the Yadava princes, through the knowledge of the destruction of the world. ||70||
He contemplated this fierce meditation: "Look, I was engaged in my innocent tapas, yet these people harmed me. Therefore, I will burn this entire city of the violent ones, along with all its inhabitants." ||71||
As he meditated thus, the terrible god, the bearer of disastrous consequences, approached. As soon as he arrived, great calamities began to occur in Dwarika, causing fear. ||72-73||
The people in their homes, sleeping peacefully at night, began to have terrifying dreams that made their hair stand on end. ||73||
Finally, that god, filled with sin and anger, reached the city and began to burn it from the outside, a city filled with animals and humans. ||74||
The city was engulfed in smoke and flames. He caught and threw into the fire the old, the women, the children, the animals, and the birds. Where is compassion in a sinner? ||75||
At that time, the cries of all the creatures burning in the fire were such as had never been heard on this earth. ||76||